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Rebecca Byrkit

Rebecca Byrkit lives and writes in Hawaii, where she runs a retreat for writers on the Kona coast. Her poems, short stories, and music reviews have appeared in excellent anthologies (Best American Poetry, Best of Exquisite Corpse) and journals (Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review) for over twenty years. She teaches creative nonfiction writing for ASU Polytechnic.

Gone August

26 January 2008
Vol. 7, No. 4
poetry, ghazal, rhyme

Gone grazin'. You Boch-drunk. Clink of spoons on sunglasses—

Me, girl gone glisterlight. Whitehot malaise in the grasses

Gone soft aspen slantlight that blisters, then passes—

Gone your kisses, O my Clearing! Wildwooded ways in the grasses…